CV

Lead Consultant
Hippo

• Directly line manage 2 other engineers
• Worked as the Technical Lead on a UK public sector project for the Department for Education (DfE)
  • Directly managed a 7-man, cross-functional technical team including engineers, testers and technical architects
  • Planned and implemented a migration from a 10+ repo microservice architecture to a monolothic monorepo, making it easier to develop and deploy changes
  • Cut deployment times from 1-2 days to 20 minutes on average
  • Designed and documented architectural changes in line with GDS architectural and technology standards

Software Development Tutor
Yarbz Digital Ltd

I taught students of all levels modern software development, including coding fundamentals, computer science theory and modern software technologies.

Freelance Software Consultant
Yarbz Digital Ltd

• Designed the architecture for and developed the MVP for a recruitment platform and accompanying browser extension, which was used to pull in and process 1,000+ user profiles, proving its feasibility
• Developed Fifty Five and Five's flagship website (fiftyfiveandfive.com), improving their Google PageSpeed Insights score to near-100s across the board (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO)
• Built front-end of sportank.com, a social network for American Football enthusiasts and athletes
• Designed and built a proof-of-concept gRPC web client, proving real-time voice input streaming from web browsers to medical speech recognition software.
• Maintained and improved the Integra Planner event management platform used by thousands of people for multi-day event

Contract Software Engineer
The Data Shed

• Designed and built the front-end of a bespoke fund recovery system, which allowed more than 100,000 customers affected to recover funds lost by loan mis-selling

Software Architect
T101

• Lead on the complete platform re-architecture and development for Recon, UK-based dating app with 200,000 monthly active users
• Directly managed a team of 5 software engineers
• Architected and lead on the implementation of key features, including authentication, authorisation, instant messaging, user profiles, galleries, and geocoding

Senior Software Developer
Datatrial

• Worked on developing new/improving existing functional modules for Datatrial's Nucleus offering, which aims to provide a web platform for facilitating clinical trials.

Software Engineer
pipdig

• Developing a mix of commercial sites and bespoke blogs, I was responsible for the entire product life-cycle. This included requirements gathering, development, management of the project and ultimately delivering and maintaining the product. Responsibilities also included improving internal software development practices and working to increase efficiency across a wide range of small, fast-paced projects.

Senior Software Developer
The Works

• I was the sole developer for an event management platform at Newcastle University, enhancing it by developing key features.

Software Developer
Orangebus

• My responsibilities involved developing and managing a variety of different projects across different industries.

Junior Software Developer
True Potential LLP

• Primarily a web developer, my responsibilities included developing interactivity on the front-end, back-end services and designing database structures for large-scale web applications that are in-use by over 2 million clients as of November 2016.

IT Support / Trainee Software Developer
Innovation Property (UK)

• I worked as an IT Support Technician and Developer Trainee. My responsibilities included dealing with IT issues via an IT help desk system. I also worked on improvements to internally-developed software that was used by our Arboricultural staff. I also provided updates to an internal MVC application used by office staff to log data, arrange appointments for external staff and contact clients.